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PROGRESS!

Here's a report on progress made on challenging the financiers and makers of nuclear bombs.

A Better PNC Bank

A Petition to Pittsburgh, PA based PNC Financial Services/PNC Bank, its Board of Directors and current CEO, William Demchak

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons opened for signature at the United Nations in New York on 20 September 2017 and entered into force on 22 January 2021. There are currently 86 signatories and 54 states parties.  Nuclear weapons are an affront to our humanity and are an imminent threat to the entire planet.

As a concerned citizen, I demand that PNC Bank sell off all the loans, investments, and bond issues that it has in nuclear arms producers.  Further, I demand from PNC a binding commitment to never invest in any entity involved in the manufacture of nuclear weapons.

In adding my name to the petition, I encourage the continuation of protests at PNC Headquarters and PNC branches and also the continued meetings with PNC personnel to advance this demand.

To add your name to the list of signers below click to the sign-on page.

Molly Rush     South Hills Justice Seekers, Pittsburgh, PA
I've been part of the Banking the Bomb campaign in Pittsburgh.
Marie Dennis     Pax Christi International, Washington, DC
Spending billions of dollars each year to maintain and refurbish the nuclear arsenal of the United States steals resources from providing for healthy, resilient communities that can slow the spread of disease and more quickly recover from serious threats like the COVID-19 pandemic. Nowhere is transformation more desperately needed than in freeing the world from the terrifying threat of nuclear weapons. Consent to the presence of nuclear weapons in our world not only accepts the risk of a nuclear conflagration in the future, but also undermines the ethical foundations for the common good here and now.
Joseph Nangle, OFM     Catholic Priest of the Franciscan Order, Assisi Community, Washington, DC
For me it is an embarrassment to learn that the bank where I do business, PNC,  has huge investments in companies that produce nuclear weapons. I am impelled, therefore, to sign on as an endorser of this effort insisting that PNC divest of this immoral activity. Should PNC not comply with this moral demand, I shall be forced to close my account with them.
Edward T. Brett, Ph.D.     Professor Emeritus, History, La Roche University, Pittsburgh, PA
Rev. Fr. Paul Dordal     Co-Director, Christian Alliance for Peace, Pittsburgh, PA
We must rid the world of nuclear weapons, which represent an imminent and existential threat to humanity.
World Beyond War     Charlottesville, VA
Joyce Rothermel     Chair St. Mary Madgalene Social Justice & Peace Committee, Pittsburgh, PA
As a matter of conscience, believing that even the possession of nuclear weapons is a sin, I want to use my voice to work for the abolition of nuclear weapons in whatever way I can seeking public policy in the U.S. toward their abolition and being an active member of the Stop Banking the Bomb Campaign in Pittsburgh, PA.
Fr. Bernard Survil     member Association of US Catholic Priests (AUSCP), Pax Christi Greensburg, Greensburg, PA
In the late 1980's I heard Fr. George Zabelka speak about his grave sin: cooperating with the dropping of the first A-Bombs on Japan 75 years ago. He was the chaplain of the Enola Gay crew and prayed with them that God-speed them on their mission. He said: "I was certain that this mass destruction was right....I had been brainwashed by my church's silence...On judgement day I'm going to need to seek more mercy than justice..."  I invite all my fellow priests and deacons to learn from Fr. Zabelka: http://www.centerforchristiannonviolence.org/sites/default/files/media/resources/essays/FrGeorgeZabeklaInterview02.pdf
Fr. Neil Pezzulo     Glenmary Home Missioners, AUSCP, Mayardville, TN
James Henke     retired priest, Archdiocese of San Antonio, Shiner, TX
I whole heartily endorse the petition to PNC.  The popes of the Catholic Church have condemned for a long time the use of nuclear weapons.  The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in their letter in 1983 condemned their use.  Pope Francis has condemned not only their use but also the possession of such destructive weapons.  One hundred and twenty two nations have signed the 2019 treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and 38 have ratified it.  We as a nation must join them.  No institution should even consider supporting the development of and certainly be against the use of such weapons that could destroy our planet.
Nelson Belizario     retired priest, Carmelite Order, Englewood, NJ
I agree with the effort to defund nuclear weapons.   It has certainly been a hope since Pope Paul VI spoke to the UN --  War no more, no more war.   We ask that you consider different methods of investment.
Dr. Margaret Pfeil     Theology Dept. and Center for Social Concerns, University of Notre Dame, St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker Community, South Bend, IN
 Moving toward a world without nuclear weapons will require systemic transformation, starting with the redirection of capital away from the nuclear arsenal and toward the basic needs of the most vulnerable, including our Earth.
Jim Ruck and Gail Britanick     Pax Christi Pittsburgh, Forest Hills, PA
Harry J. Bury, Ph.D.     Twin Cities Nonviolent, St. Paul, MN
I no longer bank with PNC because of their investments in companies promoting our nuclear arsenal. I will return and once more bank with PNC when they cease their relationship with the nuclear industry and invest in companies that promote the well being of our society.
No need for nuclear weapons. What is needed to prevent wrongdoing is not punishment and the threat of punishment but positive reinforcement. Dropping food and medicine will change hearts and minds and not the threat of nuclear attacks.
Vincent Petersen, OFM Conv     member Conventual Franciscan Friars, Province of Our Lady of Consolation, Floyd's Knobs, IN
I am a customer of PNC Bank as I hold and use a credit card with your name brandished on it.  Knowing that your institution is connected to the nuclear arms industry through your investments and therefore helps to fund further development of this sin against humanity - I add my name to this petition.  I was a pastor in a small town in New Mexico where each day trucks filled with shipments of radioactive materials passed within two blocks of the parish, a school and a Head start program.  With the passing of each shipment I would warn the townsfolk of the dangers approaching our community. The bells fell silent after they wore out - so many shipments - so many sleepless nights staying up to ring out the bells of warning.  Even if we do not use these nuclear weapons, the by-products of their manufacture are already threatening the health and well-being of the people - and the environment.  It is a sin to be building nuclear weapons and stealing from the poor.  Your investments should be supporting the poor and not lining the pockets of corporations who are in the business of death.  I will be petitioning my religious community to consider moving our business to another bank if this practice of your institution does not change.
Dr. Frank Fromherz     author of A Disarming Spirit: The Life of Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen, Portland, OR
Rev. Steven Greenebaum     retired Founder of Living Interfaith Church, Lynwood, WA
As the world grows smaller and smaller, nuclear weapons and the threat they pose to the entirety of the Earth, including but not limited to all of humanity, have become a pointless horror. They can protect no one yet threaten to destroy everyone. I would urge PNC to cease financing them.
Fr. John Heagle     member AUSCP and Pax Christi USA, Salem, OR
The political theory of Mutual Assured Destruction is just that—MAD. The continued building of nuclear weapons is, along with the climate crisis, the greatest threat facing humanity.
Fran Ferder     Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, Salem, OR
I belong to a Franciscan congregation of women religious, and we have prominently identified our headquarters in LaCrosse, WI., a nuclear free zone for many years.  This fits with our commitment to justice and peace, and recognizes that the buildup of nuclear weapons serves no just or peaceful purpose.  As a clinical psychologist, licensed in Oregon, I am committed, along with most other Oregon psychologists, to raising awareness about the fact that most civilized countries in the world have adopted the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.  Our US Financial institutions need to honor this commitment.
Rev. Simon R. Carian     Pastor, Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
I dream of living in a world where institutions like PNC don't just care about money but rather care about the welfare of the people they serve. Nuclear disarmament serves the welfare of all; we all desire a future free from the devastation of weapons of mass destruction. It starts with places like PNC, however. Will they selfishly and disgustingly choose money and big contracts over the safety and well-being of the people in this world? No! May the change we all desire start with their courageous choice to STOP BANKING THE BOMB.
Leonard Dubi     retired priest Archdiocese of Chicago, a founding father of AUSCP, Hazel Crest, IL
We must organize to build power to serve the People of God as well as the planet to bring about true and lasting peace and freedom from the fear of nuclear weapons. Acts 17:27-28
James G. Birnbaum     attorney, La Crosse, WI
As civil rights and human rights activist for the last 51 years and before, I have actively opposed the existence and proliferation of nuclear weapons.  As a person with a long history of religious rights advocacy, as an employee of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a practicing trial and appellate lawyer, a Member Chair of a Catholic Franciscan University, a Diocesan Attorney for the last 40 years under five Bishops, a dual citizen (born in the USA) and a recent citizen of Luxembourg who votes in the European Union, I believe it is unconscionable to fund or support nuclear weapons. Please do your part to end nuclear atrocities.

Melvin Hardy     Peace Action, Mayors for Peace, Washington, DC
I participate in the United Nations NPT as a civil society delegate.  I consult for a company that is a PNC Bank depositor.  I endorse any effort to have any and all companies disinvest from Nuclear Weapons development, and by implication, any and all of its implications, including the by-products of nuclear power that fuels nuclear weapons.
Tom Navin     Glenmary Home Missioners, Lakeside Park, KY
Jay Walker     Green Party of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA
We pay for nuclear weapons three times. Once when our banking financial capacity is used up to pay for developing them. Twice when our government spends our tax dollars on purchasing them. Thrice when increased stocks of nuclear weapons ramp up conflict between nations leading to endless warfare. This money could be much better spent on ensuring the human right to housing and healthcare. Stop Banking the Bomb!
Fr. Walter Helms     Diocese of Davenport, retired, Tiffin IA
Bob Bonner     Pittsburgh Anti Imperialist League, retired RN, Pittsburgh, PA
PNC needs to recognize that we will not put up with nuclear weapons. I do not want them to finance nuclear weapons or delivery systems including lending to supplier or developer companies. I am a PhD. in physics and retired faculty member from Penn State.
Thomas Casey     Pax Christi Western NY, East Aurora, NY
Jacquelyn Doepker     member Sisters of St. Francis of Tiffin, Ohio, Tiffin, OH
I am totally against nuclear weapons, so I urge PNC to drop all support for those building or dealing in nuclear weapons. I do not want my bank to support nuclear weapons in any way.
Ed Cloonan     Pittsburgh Anti Imperialist League, Munhall, PA
PNC stop your complicity in making nuclear weapons.
Bishop Tom Gumbleton    Archdiocese of Detroit, Detroit, MI
I strongly support your effort to ‘Stop Banking the Bomb.’ Please add my name to the petition.
Rev. James Flynn     Archdiocese of Louisville, Louisville, KY
It's high time!
Chris McCullough     Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, Baltimore, MD
Walter Tillow     Louisville, KY
Sally H. Patten     St. Teresa of Kolkata Catholic Church, Powder Springs, TN
Larry Johnson     Glenmary Home Missioners, Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation, Lafayette, TN
Tayfun Gol     Pittsburgh Coordinator of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Pittsburgh, PA
Greg Godels     Pittsburgh, PA
Mel Packer     Pittsburgh, PA
Senator Jim Ferlo, retired     Pittsburgh, PA
Exploring the creation of a public/community owned bank.
Leonard Eiger     Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, Friday Harbor, WA
Humanity and nuclear weapons simply cannot co-exist. It is not a matter of if they will ever be used, ending the human experiment, but when! They must be abolished!
Elizabeth Bjerke     member Raging Grannies, Pittsburgh, PA
PNC could be a leader in divesting from military/nuclear weapons development and manufacturing. PNC's stated commitment to socially responsible investments is shallow if the investing in nuclear weapons systems continues.
Richard Geiger     human, McKees Rocks, PA
Money or people. Which would a Wall Street bank value more?
Peter C. Hinde     Carmelite Fathers, El Paso, TX
Good for the PIttsburg leadership to ban the bomb. The threat to use a nuke is a crime against humanity.
Marcia Lehman     Beaver County (PA) Peace Links, Ambridge, PA
Charles L. Patten     Powder Springs, TN
Anthony Scheminger     Pax Christi Salamanca, Cuba, NY
Take 2 minutes to view this video Which is better: Cost of Nukes or the alternative? https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=Njd4Ov6Xsp4&feature=emb_logo In a landmark statement on nuclear arms in November 2017, Pope Francis categorically condemned not only “the threat of their use” but also “their very possession.” He restated this position when he visited the two Japanese cities last November.
Wanda Guthrie     Pittsburgh Friends Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA
It’s time PNC stops its historical financing of those who kill Creation.
Rosemary Trump     Battle of Homestead Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA
Save humanity. Divest investments from nuclear weaponry. Stop financing Armageddon.
Bob Mason     Trafford, PA
I reluctantly closed my PNC account earlier this year because of the bank's failure to change it's financial support for the nuclear weapons industry.
Rosemarie Pace     Pax Christi Metro New York, Middle Village, NY
While I don't think my banks are affiliated with PNC, I can tell you I am in the process of closing my accounts with HSBC because it is invested in nuclear weapons, as well as other socially irresponsible businesses. I hope there will be a day very soon when we don't have to go searching for banks with a conscience because all banks will be too moral and ethical to invest in nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, fossil fuels, and so many other harmful businesses. Let's make peace profitable instead of death and destruction.
Marian Ronan, Ph.D.     New York Theological Seminary, Brooklyn, NY
Shame on you if you keep funding the destruction of human civilization!
Patrick Henry     Walla Walla, WA
No more nukes.
Helga Moor     New Jersey Peace Action, Clifton, NJ
No business has any business being involved in anything nuclear which is a danger to all humankind.
Margaret Mary     Flushing, NY
Rhe Kennedy     US citizen, New York, NY
Patricia Constantino     Brooklyn, NY
Joel Woller     Pittsburgh, PA
Michael Moran     St. Francis Xavier Church, Manhattan, NY
Jean Fallon     Maryknoll Sisters, Ossining, NY
Be a bank of the future, not the past!
RoseAnne Cleary     Glendale, PA
This information must be widely promulgated so that PNC is made aware of public sentiment.
Edith P. Newman     Pax Christi Metro New York, Brooklyn, NY
What's the best way to end the nuclear weapons programs of other nations? Ending the American nuclear weapons program! Let our nation become an exemplar of caring for its own citizens and peaceful sharing with other nations.
Gerald Walsh     Green Party, Claysville, PA
Luree Miller     Pittsburgh, PA
Susan M. Smith, Ph.D.     Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Pittsburgh, PA
PNC is a community leader in many ways. Take one more vital step: Divest and don't give loans to corporations that make nuclear weapons.
Sui San Mui     New York, NY
When I lived in Philadelphia I had a PNC bank account. I have fond memories of PNC bank tellers.
Kathie Westman     Gibsonia, PA
Margaret Flanagan     Pax Christi Metro New York, New York, NY
I am looking for a bank that is not supporting nuclear weapons, I will transfer my monies there when I find one that has enough branches for me to use.
I will not put my money in PNC until you divest from nuclear weapons and nuclear power support.
Rev. David Engbarth     Diocese of Rockford, Illinois, Pax Christi International, AUSCP, Largo, FL
Our fragile planet is at a tipping point as to whether or not we will destroy ourselves through nuclear weapons of mass destruction. I find it morally reprehensible that the PNC Bank invests in companies that produce nuclear weapons and strongly urge you to divest immediately of this dreadful association.
Marcus Keyes     Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, Washburn, TN
It's time for PNC to divest from Nuclear weapons
Scott Tyson     CEO Pediatrics South, HealthCare4AllPA, Pittsburgh, PA
It is time that PNC stopped supporting the building of new nuclear weapons. Please put your support to dismantling the existing ones. Stop funding a WMD that will eventually be used. Please spend that money on things that help us as a society.
Tom Milton     Pax Christi Metro, Hastings on Hudson, NY
Anne Bjornson     Pax Christi Metro, Bayside, NY
Elaine Chan     New York, NY
Paul Milanowski     Pax Christi, Grand Rapids, MI
Banking weapons of mass destruction is totally immoral.
James Barry     Malden, MA
William J. Kramer     retired Roman Catholic Priest, Springfield, OH
Support of these types of weapons is morally offensive. If we are going to build a just and free world these weapons need to be destroyed not invested in.
Vincent Burns     Catholic Church, Lansdale, PA

Dolores Schmitt     Pax Christi Metro NY, Middle Village, NY

Stephen Cleghorn     St. Matthew Catholic Church, Baltimore, MD
Mr. Demchak and PNC Board members - It seems so obvious that PNC should refrain from financing nuclear weapons of mass destruction. Why don't you? I am dismayed and upset, even disgusted, as a PNC customer who has met many wonderful clerks and managers in your banks from Punxsutawney to Pittsburgh, from Baltimore to Birmingham. It saddens me that you would betray their humanity (and your own) by threatening all humanity and much life on Earth by allowing these weapons to exist, by investing in their "modernization," rather than dedicating your resources to their abolition. Pope Francis at Hiroshima said this: “The use of atomic energy for purposes of war is immoral. As is the possession of atomic weapons. We will be judged for this." He's right. We will be. I beg you to stop banking the bomb and turn away from these weapons, stop funding them. Instead you could make PNC a leader in the abolition of nuclear weapons. How wonderful would that be for your children and their children to grow up in a world without the threat of nuclear annihilation?

Sanford Kelson     Conneaut Lake, Pa

Tony Gallagher     Toledo, OH

Fr. Frank Morin     retired priest Diocese of Portland, Waterville, ME

Susi Snyder     PAX, Utrecht, Netherlands

Jack Gilroy     Veterans for Peace, Endwell, NY
Pennsylvania was my birthplace , my education from grade 1 through the University of Scranton...I'll encourage friends and relatives in Pennsylvania to consider removing their accounts from PNC. Hopefully, PNC will do the right thing and end their financial friendship with weapons of death and destruction.

Fr. Ernest J. Corriveau, MS, retired     Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette, Attleboro, MA

Peter Murray     Saint Raphael Church, Raleigh, NC
Please stop investment in places, Corp. entities that support nuclear arms manufacture.

Jack D. Brennan     Guardian Angels Parish, Springdale, PA

Keith Zehr     Pittsburgh, PA

Fr. Garrett Dorsey     Diocese of Pittsburgh, Whitehall, PA

Fr. Regis Ryan     Diocese of Pittsburgh, McKees Rocks, PA

Anson Heagle     Algoma, WI

Mike Stout     Izaak Walton League of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA
Nukes = Human Extincton! I have withdrawn my account and will NEVER do business with PNC until they stop financing nukes!

Fr. Bob Cushing     Macon Hermitage, AUSCP, Macon, GA
Nuclear weapons are a crime against God and humanity.

Deacon James Rauner     Pax Christi, AUSCP, JustFaith, Watervliet, MI

Robert Podzikowski     Pax Christi Michigan, Oak Park, MI

Pax Christi Michigan     Lansing, MI

Physicians for Social Responsibility     Washington, DC

Martin Fleck     Director, Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), Springfield, VA
A meaningful medical response to any use of nuclear weapons would be impossible. Any use of nuclear weapons would have devastating health, humanitarian and environmental consequences. We can’t prepare for nuclear war, so we must prevent it. We are on the wrong path and we need to get onto a different path. Progress toward disarmament is hindered by profiteering, so PSR strongly supports divestment from nuclear weapons industries. PSR also urges the United States government to begin negotiations with the other 8 nuclear-armed countries for a time-bound, verifiable, enforceable agreement to dismantle all nuclear weapons, worldwide.

Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility     Baltimore, MD

Preventnuclearwar-Maryland     Baltimore, MD

Gwen DuBois, MD, MPH     President, Physicians for Social Responsibility & Preventnuclearwar-Maryland, Baltimore, MD

Rev. Frederick L. Thelen     Pax Christi Michigan, Weldman, MI

Mark Scibilia-Carver     Friends of Franz & Ben, Trumansburg, NY
Surely Pope Francis' categorical condemnation of the threat to use nuclear weapons as well as their very possession would include not investing in them in any way.

Sr. Jean Rupertus     Chester Community Coalition, Claymont, DE

Danat Brysch     Felician Sisters, Beaver Falls, PA
Helping finance nuclear weapons in no way aids in the upbuilding of society; money spent on armaments is money used to stoke further violence in the world; adding to the risk of obliterating humanity.

Evelyn Rock     Catholic, Stanford, CA
Want to have any of our ( husband Peter Rock) investments pulled out of armaments of any kind or type.

Maria Asteinza     Forest Hills, NY

Maryann Agnes Mueller     Felician Sisters, Enfield, CT

Gail Caswell     San Francisco, CA

Kathie Takush     Reading, PA

Christopher W. Buckley     Seattle, WA

J. L. Angell     Rescue, CA

Kathy Bradley     Lugoff, SC
Anne MacFadyen     Pax Christi, Boynton Beach, FL
Ramona Miller     Sisters of St. Francis, Rochester, MN
As a Franciscan Sister, I am committed to promoting peacemaking. Building and storing nuclear weapons threatens peace in our world. I advocate the banning of all nuclear weapons.
Elsa M. Gibson     Silver Spring, MD
I could not do any business with you now that I know of your connection to sinful nuclear weapons with their potential to harm and indeed kill life.
Jill Nicholas     Penfield, NY
Nancy Opalski     Companion to Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, Trenton, NJ
Mary Kelley     Pax Christi, Parkland, FL
Pax Christi works toward eliminating nuclear weapons.
Joanne Tenney     Franciscan Action Network, Escondido, CA
Leigh Stamets     Carmichael, CA
Mark J. Kuehner     CASA (Citizens in Action Serving All) Blue Island, Blue Island, IL
The nuclear weapons industry is dangerous and immoral.
Marlys Jax     Rochester, MN
Diane Gaertner     Commack, NY
Joe Ehrhardt     Franciscan Friars, Beacon, NY
Let us do what is Best for our World, All Peoples, & All Creation!
Barbara and Jim Dale     Decorah, IA
Removing the nuclear threat enhances everyone's security.
Mark Grotzke     Palos Heights, IL
Don't bankroll nuclear weaponry.
Helen Malcheski     Milwaukee, WI
Patti Loehnig     St. Louis, MO
Ramon Lopez     Comision de paz, justicia y integridad de la creacion, San Juan, Colombia
Mary Ellen Joseph     Scottsdale, AZ
Make better, peaceful sense for your grandchildren.
Robert M. Brown     Fircrest, WA
All banks should consider themselves citizens of the Earth and should want the best for it.
Leona Wieland     Catholic Church, Sartell, MN
As the 75th Anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima approaches, I born on August 6th, call for an end of nuclear weapon development and deployment since it falsely tries to save life on our planet.
Kay Reibold     Raleigh, NC
Bob Pedretti     Mission Santa Clara, San Jose, CA
Blood money is not for the common good.
Sister Kathleen Moore     Bernardine Franciscan Sisters, Reading, PA
Brother Mark Schroeder, OFM     Franciscans for Justice, Santa Barbara, CA
Do the right thing.
Helen Jacobson, OSF     Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, Wilmington, DE
Sister Antonelle Chunka     Felician Sisters of North America, Spotswood, NJ
Gloriamarie Amalfitano     Episcopal Church, San Diego, CA
Dawn Albnese     Elk Grove Village, IL
Joan Hrabe     Rochester, MN
Sherrill Futrell     Davis, CA
Beyond the immortality of nukes, they're lousy investments.
Bonnie Denhaan     United Church of Canada, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
Hope this gets millions of signatures, globally!
Andrea Likovich     Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, Aston, PA
Bernardo Alayza Mujica     Sioux City, IA
Joan Felling     Benedictines for Peace & Justice, St. Joseph, MN
Sister Betty Reinders     School Sisters of St. Francis, Milwaukee, WI
Natalie Van Leekwijck     Hazard, NE
Thomas Nieland     Alamo, TX
Kaitlyn     Monroeville, PA
Cheryl Arthur     Charlottesville, VA
Kathy Shores     Tempe, AZ
Joyce Frohn     Oshkosh, WI
Carolyn Riddle     Roman Catholic Church, TX
There can be no greater threat to all life, human and non-human, than nuclear weapons and waste products. Their proliferation must end.
Tim Trout     Jeannette, PA
Dominic Denuzzio     Pittsburgh for Socialism and Liberation, ANSWER Coalition, Pittsburgh, PA
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons opened for signature at the United Nations in New York on 20 September 2017 and entered into force on 22 January 2021. There are currently 86 signatories and 54 states parties. Nuclear weapons are an affront to our humanity and are an imminent threat to the entire planet. PNC should cease all involvement with the nuclear weapons industry
Jared Negley     Harmony, PA
Sister Bell Joyce     Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Secane, PA
Peter Schutz     Coalition For Peace Action (CFPA), High Bridge, NJ
If we don't get rid of nuclear weapons, someday they will get rid of us.
Martha Spencer     Brevard, NC
Deacon Keith G. Kondrich     Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Bruce Gagnon     Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, Brunswick, ME
Stop paying for the bomb!
Nicholas Noe, OFS     Secular Franciscan, DeKalb, IL
Ed Kinane     Upstate (NY) Drone Action, Syracuse, NY
"da nuke nuke makes me want to puke puke" (song from the seventies). who gains from nuclear weaponry? a handful of corporations and investors. who loses? every human being on this planet. (not to mention the rest of sentient life).
Peter E. Swords     Syracuse Peace Council, Syracuse, NY
Charley Bowman     Environmental Justice Taskforce of the Western NY Peace Center, Getzville, NY
Paki Wieland     Code Pink, Conway, NH
Richard John Kinane     Boulder, CO
Caring, thinking, courageous friends don't let friends fund nukes.
Steering Committee of the Justice & Peace Network     Sisters of Saint Francis, Rochester, MN
James E. Jennings, PhD     Conscience International, Gainesville, GA
Nuclear weapons are a Sword of Damocles hanging over every man, woman, and child on earth, as President Kennedy said in 1961. As dangerous as nuclear weapons are, humanity in the Twenty-first Century faces an even more profoundly dangerous threat because of the massive stockpiles of biological weapons, which, like an unopened Pandora's Box, have yet to be unleashed on humankind. All weapons of mass destruction must be banned by consensus of the international community. Banks like PNC can do their part by refusing to participate in their creation, with a commensurate degree of responsibility for their eventual use.
Sister Mary Kay Mahowa     Franciscans, El Paso, Tx
No more investments in death. Choose LIFE
Barb Rogers     Ames, IA
Rick Wayman     CEO, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA
PNC should get out in front of this issue here in the United States by implementing an explicit policy to not fund nuclear weapons producers.
Deacon Herb Riley     Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Art Hanson     Lansing, MI
I strongly urge PNC Bank to sell off ALL the loans, investments, and bond issues it has in nuclear arms producers. Also, I strongly urge PNC to issue a binding commitment to NEVER invest in ANY entity involved in the manufacture of nuclear weapons.
I make this urgent request as a former U.S. Air Force Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Launch Officer who knows the extreme dangers of even possessing nuclear weapons. Nuclear war should NEVER be started because it can NEVER be won. EVERYONE loses.

Wilton Vought     Montrose, PA
Leslie Potter     Pax Christi Peace Vigil Elmira, Big Flats, NY
We have gone 75 years without another nuclear 'event,' but as tension rises due to global inequity, COVID-19, and increasing nationalism, the stakes are rising. We must eliminate the grand eliminator, nuclear weapons!h
Daryl Denning     Elmira NY Quakers, Veterans for Peace, Corning, NY
Too many close calls - depending on "luck" and mutual assured destruction bring us closer to midnight on the Doomsday Clock. 75 years after Hiroshima & Nagasaki, we still bear witness to the horrors inflicted. The proliferation of even more powerful weapons of mass destruction and the many close calls over the years command us to act. Nukes are a sin against God and all God's creation.
Sean Nolan     Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Divest from Nuclear weapons please.
I believe that PNC bank, as the nation's sixth largest bank, can be a local leader in paving the way toward a nuclear free future for America. We don't need to manufacture more atomic or hydrogen bombs. We already possess too many to properly manage and account for safely, at all times.
In addition, I support a carbon tax or carbon fee on greenhouse gas emitters. A tax or fee could work better than the current cap and trade system of carbon emissions. It is less bureaucratic and more predictable than the cap and trade system. A price of $15 per ton of CO2 emitted, with a $10 per ton gradual increase over time, is a good starting place. This will reduce carbon emissions by 30% in the next decade and get us further toward net zero emissions by the year 2050. I take the opportunity to mention the carbon tax issue at this time b/c I feel that climate change is as serious an issue as is nuclear arms disarmament. Thank you -

Wanda M. Guthrie     EcoJustice Working Group Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh, PA
The military continues to be an existential threat to our world. Words alone cannot prevent a nuclear catastrophe, not good intentions, not plans and meetings of diplomats or heads of state only policies that prevent any financial involvement in nuclear weapons-producing companies. Simply DON'T BANK THE BOMB; prevent investments in the nuclear weapons industry!
Briton Holmberg     Chicago, IL
I had no idea PNC was funding such violence and destruction. Please divest immediately or I will need to change banks.
Regina Birchem     St. Joseph, MN
Liane Norman     Pittsburgh, PA
Thomas J. Severin     Connellsville, PA
Professor Francis A. Boyle     Champaign, IL
Carol Teodori     Parramatta Diocese, Blue Mountains Deanery, Hazelbrook, New South Wales, Australia
My family has been with PNC (previously Bridgeville Trust) since the 40s. We have trusted the Bank and been practically family with many of the tellers and office staff. The personal care offered has been exceptional. We know your people care. Please take this opportunity to show that care by divesting of anything that supports nuclear weapons. Thank you.

Deno De Ciantis     Penn State (retired), Pittsburgh, PA

Cynthia Vanda     Pittsburgh, PA

Robert Anderson, PhD     Former Pittsburgh resident, NM

John G. Oesterle     Association of Pittsburgh Priests, Pittsburgh, PA

Philomena O'Dea     Pittsburgh, PA
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." - J. Robert Oppenheimer. Bank on human progress not extinction please.

Byron Borger     Dallastown, PA

Mary Jean Havern     Pittsburgh, PA

Paola Scommegna     Pittsburgh, PA

Marcia Snowden     Association of Pittsburgh Priests, Pittsburgh, PA

Barbara Cass      Pittsburgh, PA
We do not need nuclear proliferation. Let’s ban nuclear weapons and work for peace!

William Talentino     Capuchin Franciscans, Santa Ynez, CA

Jeanie and David Mayes     Unitarian Church, Minneapolis, MN

RoBear Wilson     Thomas Merton Center of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Brother Benedict     LaTrobe, PA
Anything that promotes peace and outlaws nuclear weapons is a must for Christians today.
Catherine Raphael     Pittsburgh, PA
Joyce Hylazewski, MM     St. Mary Madgalene, Pittsburgh, PA
Sister Betty Sundry     Sisters of Divine Providence, Allison Park, PA
Cornelius Cosgrove     Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Art McDonald     First Universalist Church, Essex, MA
Mary Heath     Brunswick, ME
As a member of the Maine Green Party I oppose the funding of nuclear arm products by PNC or any banking institution. Thank you for bringing this to the public's attention.
Rev. Nicolas Argentieri     Pittsburgh, PA
Please use the money and talents we are given by God not to annihilate and destroy but to build and strengthen one another. May God bless you with the knowledge and right judgment to discontinue funding the maintenance and sustenance of nuclear weapons.
Vincent Stegman     Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Bethel Park, PA
Enabling nuclear expansion is frightening and dangerous! Contributing in any way for the development of nuclear weapons is complely immoral and destructive.
Douglas A. Shields     Pittsburgh, PA

Karen Miyares     Pittsburgh, PA
I urge you to open your hearts and minds to see how necessary this is for now and the future. Thank you.

Mark Child     Pittsburgh, PA

Leila Richards     Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh, PA
This is a moral issue for me. It should be an ethical issue for PNC.

Maria Kruszewski     Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, Bellevue, PA

Ginny Hildebrand     Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh, PA
I use to bank with PNC but no longer do because of bank's immoral practices.

Elizabeth O'Brien     Grace Episcopal Church, Yorktown, VA

Rosalie Paul     Greater Brunswick PeaceWorks, Brunswick, ME

Nancy Lapp     Pittsburgh, PA

Marianne Novy     Pittsburgh, PA

Irene Surmik     Pittsburgh, PA

Diane V. Byrnes     Pittsburgh, PA

Sister Kari Pohl     Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden, PA, Aliquippa, PA

Theresa Orlando     NH Anti-Racism Coalition, Glenshaw, PA

Rev. Charles W. Dahm, OP     Dominicans, Chicago, IL
So many ways to wisely invest money. Let's not do it to support nuclear weapons and other weapons of war.

Tyler Terrell     Ruther Glen, VA

Colleen Dougherty     Pittsburgh, PA
I used to be a PNC bank account holder. No longer. I wish this bank that holds our beloved city's name did not bank the bomb.

Ben Gifford     Parma, OH
Please divest from nuclear weapons.

Bram Kools     Reading, MA

Karen Bernard     Pittsburgh, PA

Rev. Glen     Jemez Peacemakers, Jemez Springs, NM
It's time to Stop the War Machine in all ways possible .. Peace Yes !

Carol Masters     Women Against Military Madness, Minneapolis, MN

Rev. Ronald Bryda     retired Pastor, Diocese of Cleveland, Westlake, OH
Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- real life demonstration of the insanity and immorality of nuclear weapons. Funding the further development and stockpiling of even more destructive weapons of this kind is equally insane and immoral. Please begin the process to divest.

Tom Hoffman     retired, Pittsburgh, PA

Sue Heilman     Lancaster, PA
I cancelled my PNC account because of my concerns.

Annika Andersson     South Beach, OR

Kirsi Jansa     Pittsburgh, PA
My family members have PNC accounts. We will be following closely how you respond to this petition. PNC made a wise and responsible decision regarding mountaintop removal. Please do the right thing again and cut your ties to the nuclear weapon industry.

Symone Saul     Pennsylvania United, Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Funding nuclear weapons is more evil than being the one to push the button.

Allan Bostelmann     Healing of Memories, Miesoata, Minneapolis, MN
As a PNC Bank credit card holder and an infantry veteran, I urge you to stop investing in nuclear weapons programs!

Fr. Ray Tetrealt     Diocese of Providence, Providence, RI
See Democracy Now, August 6, 2020 for a witness from a person who lived through the bombing of Hiroshima. Is that what America is fully prepared to do again? We have to call to conversion such an America.

Mary Elizabeth Schrei     Pittsburgh, PA

Teresa Wilson     Grail, CA

Marcia Bandes     Pittsburgh, PA

Fr. Bob Wenz     retired Pastor, Strongsville, OH

Rev. Timothy J. Hickey, CSSp     Congregation of the Holy Spirit, the Spiritans, Arlington, VA

Marcia Luek     Pittsburgh Raging Grannies, WILPF, Gibsonia, PA

Pauline O'Dea Knutsson     Askersund, Sweden

Michael Drohan     Stop Banking the Bomb, Pittsburgh, PA
When Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Manhattan Project, saw the explosion of the atom bomb at Los Alamos, he exclaimed "I have become death". He opposed using the bomb. Nevertheless, President Truman incinerated 140,000 innocent civilians in Hiroshima on Aug 6, 1945. Funding nuclear weapons approves and helps to commit this original crime over and over again.

Fr. Carmen D'Amico     Meadow Lands, PA

Jo Schlesinger     President, Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace, Pittsburgh, PA

Allan H. Willinger     Pittsburgh, PA

Rev. William Graf     St. John Fisher College, Victor, NY
Act justly; love tenderly; walk humbly.

Frank Coady     St. Thomas More Church, Manhattan, KS

Dean Hammer     Plowshares Activist, Ludlow, VT

Felice Cohen-Joppa     The Nuclear Resister, Tucson, AZ
For the sake of our children, our grandchildren and the planet, please stop supporting and investing in weapons of mass destruction.

Jack Cohen-Joppa     The Nuclear Resister, Tucson, AZ

Michael Schneller     St. Francis of Assisi, New Orleans, LA
Today I was reflecting on the treasure of every human life and millions lost in World War II. Time to stop the nuclear arms production.

John Schuchardt     House of Peace, Veterans for Peace, Ipswich, MA
Don't dig your own grave, PNC.   "Love is the only solution."  ( Dorothy Day)

Patricia A. Marida     Chair, Ohio Sierra Club Nuclear Free Committee, Columbus, OH
No to any more planetary destruction.

Lee Blackburn     Pataskala, OH
There are many more healthier things you can invest in than nuclear.

Lynn Friedman     Sierra Club, Columbus, OH

Kayla Donten     Green Party, Pittsburgh, PA

David F. Bellone     Jeannette, PA
If Pope Francis says we have to dump nuclear weapons, I'm all for it.

Alyia Paulding     Swissvale, PA

Judith L. Albert     Physicians for a National Health Program of Western PA, Pittsburgh, PA
This is a public health issue. No life after nuclear bombs! Stop the financing PNC. It is clearly not necessary for your survival as a bank.

Rev. Edward L. Palumbos     Diocese of Rochester, St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Rochester, NY
Nuclear weapons are indiscriminate, non-deterring and immoral.

Michele Peppers     The Ribbon International, Huntington, NY

Sam Applefield     Pittsburgh, PA

Rev. Timothy Piasecki     St. Mary Catholic Church, Aurora, IL
We are 75 years from Hiroshima. Can we not learn from that tragedy?

Kathleen Y. Drury     Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS), Chicago, IL
Nuclear arms and energy must be erased from this planet so that peace may prevail.

Paul Kelly     Catholic priest, NY

Stephen V. Kobasa     St. Thomas More Catholic Chapel at Yale, New Haven, CT
No better time to do the right thing in the cause of peace.

Sr. Mary Lou Geraets     Aberdeen, SD

Fr. Duane L. Pribula     Catholic Diocese of Crookston, Moorhead, MN
While I am not a member of PNC Bank, I am a stakeholder as an American citizen and very concerned about bank investments. I possess about seven credit cards and use the services of Bell Bank, Fargo, ND.

Mary Smith     Church Women United in New York State, Rochester, NY

Maureen Gilroy     Ithaca, NY
Please stop making loans to American nuclear weapons producers- care about the future of our world.

William Waters     Pax Christi Rhode Island, East Providence, RI
Nuclear Weapons are an existential threat.

Henry Lambert     Pax Christi Burlington, Seanton, VT

Sr. Martha Ann Kirk     Sister of Charity of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX
I repeat the words of my friend, James Henke, a retired priest, Archdiocese of San Antonio, "I whole heartily endorse the petition to PNC. The popes of the Catholic Church have condemned for a long time the use of nuclear weapons. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in their letter in 1983 condemned their use. Pope Francis has condemned not only their use but also the possession of such destructive weapons. One hundred and twenty two nations have signed the 2019 treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and 38 have ratified it. We as a nation must join them. No institution should even consider supporting the development of and certainly be against the use of such weapons that could destroy our planet."

Margaret Sents     People for a Safer Society, Glenview, IL

David Borzenski     St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church, Lansing, MI
I pray that the $2 trillion earmarked for future maintenance AND enhancements of nuclear weapons might be spent on maintenance and enhancements of tools of justice, peace and life. “May nations train for war no more!”

Mary Hydro     Benedictine Sisters of Florida, St. Leo, FL
I am a member of Benedictines for Peace. Jesus showed us how to make peace--give of self & care for others. We cannot Not but stand up & speak out for PEACE. Never can we sanction violence.

Elizabeth Spiering     Western Springs, IL
My staying with your bank depends on your action to stop this funding.

William Zaccagnino     Alexandria, VA
Putting money into weapons of mass destruction is inhumane and immoral. It is blood money.

Tim Mathern     ND Senate, Fargo, ND
Please divest your nuclear arms business, invest in green energy instead.

Jim Dempsey     Orange, CA
Pope Francis has called the possession of nuclear weapons "immoral".

Bro. Anthony Zuba, OFM     Capuchin Franciscans, Boston, MA

Mary Jo Iozzio     Boston College, Boston, MA
To free us from the prospect of an escalation in war games to nuclear destruction, we must in every conceivable way possible stop funding the development and proliferation of these deadly initiatives.

Fr. Joseph P. Keenan, ST     Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity, Adelphi, MD
Do not fund nuclear weapons at all.

Ellen Finnigan     Catholics Against Militarism, CO
I will keep you in my prayers, hoping that you reconsider your business practices to better reflect a Christian way of helping the world.

Patricia Tweedy     Pax Christi, Greentown, PA
Thank you for taking action on this.

Margaret Chisholm     Medford, MA
The future of our planet requires the abolition of nuclear weapons. Please do not be part of their proliferation. Thank you for refusing to fund them.

Laurie Koniwinski     Ithaca Catholic Worker, Ithaca, NY
Invest in the future-- green energy, education, infrastructure-- NOT in the destruction of lives and the planet.

Charlie Greene, PE     Gratitude to Water Catholic Worker House, Moravia, NY
Please wake up!

Thierry Verley     Lieuran les Beziers, France
Isn't it time to remove the nuclear heel from the throats of humanity!

Sr. Barbara Hansen     Grand Rapids, MI
I am appalled to learn this.

Bob C. Zeigler     Pax Christi, Olympia, WA
Pope Francis comments on 75th Anniversary of Hiroshima earler this month are especially relevant.

Monica Fox     Creation Care Ministry, St. Clement Church, Skokie, IL

Annette Dworsky, OP     Dominican Sisters of Houston, Houston, TX
I urge your action to contribute to humanity's search for peace.

Todd Saddler     Ithaca Catholic Worker, Ithaca, NY

John Tweedy     Pax Christi Metro New York, Bellerose, NY

Benita Coffey, OSB     Roman Catholic Church, St. Scholastica Monastery, Chicago, IL
At 13, on Aug. 6, 1945, I raced on my bike around the neighborhood, cheering that Nagasaki had been bombed! Lord, have mercy!

Moira Scheuring     Labor Religion Coalition of the Finger Lakes, Dryden, NY
Nuclear weapons are the biggest threat to human life and to our planet.

Ceil Roeger     Houston, TX

Mary M. Martin     Sts. Simon & Jude Catholic Church, Huntington Beach, CA
I had a PNC mortgage previously. If only one nuclear bomb was used today, the earth and every living creature, human, animal, plant life, could be destroyed. Bombs today are exceedingly more powerful than those that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago. Nuclear bombs are immoral and need to be gone forever from our home, this planet .

Max Obuszewski     Baltimore Nonviolence Center, Baltimore, MD
I divested from PNC, and closed both a savings and checking account because of its support for nuclear weapons contractors.

William T. Cavanaugh     Professor of Catholic Studies, DePaul University, Oak Park, IL
You will be happy if you do the right thing. In this case, the right thing is directing resources away from death and towards life, towards the kind of banking that builds healthy and sustainable communities.

John L. Tischhauser     St. John XXIII Catholic Community, Alberquerque, NM

Jessica Erwin     Park City, UT

Kate Zilla, PhD     Chicago Area Peace Action, NEIS, Chicago, IL
Please become a model for similar banks in the midwest and throughout our country. We have no time to waste.

James M. Deshotels     Robertsville, MO
   

Bertha Haas     St. Alexander Catholic Church, Cornelius, OR

Br. Michael Gosch, CSV     Cleric of St. Viator, Chicago, IL

MaryAnn Denning     Corning, NY

Marilyn Wilson     Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sunnyvale, CA

Richard Molter     Racine, WI

Jason Miller     Arlington, VA

Jean Mont-Eton     San Francisco, CA

Albert Kirk     Pax Christi Memphis, Cordova, TN
Although I am not one of your customers, I hope you will heed the desires of many people in our nation.
Br. Jeremy T. Dominic, SCS     Private Association of the Faithful, Brother Servants of the Sacred Heart, Necedah, WI
Jeanne Clennon, CSC      Sisters of the Holy Cross, Ventura, CA
It is a double moral outrage to think anyone or any company would support the construction of nuclear weapons. Not only are they preparing to murder thousands of innocent people, but they are using money that is desperately needed to feed the starving.
John M. Cloninger, Jr.     Dignity/Palm Beach, Jupiter, FL
Nuclear weapons are the most evil items on the planet. A single accident can destroy civilization, or possibly all life on earth. They are unconscionable!
John Helm     Louisville, KY

Mary Lou Bolfik     Pikesville, MD

Patricia Colla     West Hartford, CT

Mary Beaudoin     Silver Spring, MD

Jeanne Forbes     Concerned Citizen, Newport Beach, CA
I am opposed to supporting nuclear weapon development! Divest!!!!!!

Sheilamarie Tobbe     Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland, Pepper Pike, OH
The Ursuline Sisters bank with PNC.

Agatha Forest     Chicago, IL

Lynette Hansen     Green Peace, Fountain Valley, CA

Jerry Stein     The Peace Farm, Amarillo, TX
You could be a better bank by not banking on world suicide. It's even in your best interest!

Filo Hirota     Mercedarian Missionaries of Berriz Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, Tokyo, Japan

Martha Hennessy     Catholic Worker, Perkinsville, VT
Ban the banks and move to credit unions.

Anne Bosserman     Pax Christi Spokane, Spokane, WA
Nuclear arms must be eliminated ~ we are at a tipping point of annihilating life on earth. We must act NOW! Thank you for participating!

Rosemary Everett     Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, Campbell, CA
Nuclear weapons endanger everyone.

Yes     Select...used to be saver, Endicott, NY
Please do not continue to advocate for war machines!
Thomas A. Smith, OFM     Province of Our Lady of Consolation, Mesilla Park, NM
We need to reduce nuclear war possibilities by reducing the stockpile and not making more weapons. Corporate responsibility is real.


Tom McGuire     St. Pascal Catholic Church, Chicago, IL
There are several PNC Banks in and around the neighborhood I live in. We ask PNC to become a responsible investor supporting non-violence.

Patricia Hinton     St. Louis, MO

Michael Carr     AUSCP, Cheyenne, WY

Rosalie G. Riegle     Oblate at St. Scholastica's Monastery, Evanston, IL
Eliminating funding for nuclear war is crucial!!!

Scott Mathern-Jacobson     Presentation Prayer Center, Fargo, ND
Disarm and live!

Father Pat Gaza     AUSCP, Merrillville, IN

Linda Marsek     Maryknoll Sisters, Croton-On-Hudson, NY
It is time to make a conscious critical change by the officers of the PNC bank to divest. Others have done it and so can you!
George F. Jacobs     Pax Christi, Dahlonega, GA
The words of Christ, but even more so, His actions, condemn your actions.
Fr. Thomas Sutherland     AUSCP, Detroit, MI
W. Peter Horton     AUSCP, Pittsburgh, PA
Deacon William G. Batz     Pittsburgh, PA
We look to PNC to join major banking organizations around the world who have agreed to no longer finance nuclear, biological or chemical weapons or land-mines. We urge PNC to show true leadership for the good of humanity itself.
Rev. Leroy DiPietro     Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Martin J. Rafanan     Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Southwest Pennsylvania Synod, Pittsburgh, PA
I support de-militarization in all ways, especially the destruction of all nuclear weapons and agreement among nations of the world never to use nuclear weapons again.
David Hughes     Citizen Power, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA
PNC: Stop investing in our destruction!
Samuel Esposito     Coraopolis, PA
Deacon Thomas J. Berna, PhD     Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
I serve as operating manager of Fishes & Loaves Cooperative Ministries. PNC has provided great service to this non-profit and to my personal account with PNC, but I am discouraged that the bank is taking so long to respond to this reasonable request. Ban the Bomb - don't invest in it!
Kathy Carr     Corpus Christi parishoner, McDonald, PA
Would you want your family to experience a Nuclear Disaster?!
Mimi Darragh     Pittsburgh Area Pax Christi, Bridgeville, PA
Invest in life not death.
Jennifer McDevitt     Pittsburgh, PA

Bill Pickard     Catholic Worker, New York, NY

Elda Luisi     Pax Christi Metro New York, New York, NY
Your action against war and violence will blossom into greater abundance!

Helen M. Caldicott     Founder, Physicians for Social Responsibility - 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, Berry, New South Wales, Australia
I totally support this effort.

John Oda     San Francisco, CA
Please stop being evil. Thank you very much.

Kirstin De Mello     Vienna, VA
PNC, please lead the way and stop financing nuclear arms production, for a safer, more peaceful world for us all.

John and Ann Marie Judson     PSR Pennsylvania, Pax Christi Harrisburg, Mechanicsburg, PA
PNC did the right thing with divesting from mountain top removal. Please do the right thing again for the future of all of us!

Sarah Hancock     Hummelstown, PA

Ming Lai     NevadaDesertExperience.org, Las Vegas, NV

Terry Barber     Olympia, WA
Nuclear weapons are an affront to the dignity of every human being. Why would anyone want to make money over the potential annihilation of the human race?

Robert J. Schaefer     The Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Monroeville, Greensburg, PA

T. Kerby Neill, PhD  Veteran, cofounder Peace Studies Program, U of KY, Central KY Council for Peace and Justice, Lexington, KY
You would not invest in a germ warfare program. Nuclear weapons kill just as indiscriminately and in mass use have the potential to destroy much of life on earth.

Laura-Marie River Victor Peace     Las Vegas Radical Mental Health  Collective, Las Vegas, NV
Please divest from nuclear weapons funding for the well-being of all.

Erik Bertrand Ebright     Casa Del Bodhi, Miami, FL
Please, be kind, nuclear weapons are not the solution.

Karen Coulter Perkins     University of Pittsburgh, Aspinwall, PA

Bette McDevitt     Raging Grannies of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
I have been hesitant to sign because the word "demand" would not be a word i would choose, in asking or urging PNC to divest, but however we do it, ask, urge, even demand, we are united in the knowledge that the investment is bad business and immoral.

Margaret Cammarata     Private citizen, Pittsburgh, PA

Edith Bell    WILPF, Pittsburgh, PA
You should be able to find a less destructive way to make some money.

Karen Bryant     Pittsburgh, PA
I recently learned that PNC Bank invests in companies that make parts for nuclear weapons. I am deeply disappointed. I request that PNC reconsider and change this activity.

James Knight     Caneyhead Pictures, Altadena, CA
Nuclear weapons make the world a more dangerous place. Divest, please.

Dennis Apel     Santa Maria, CA

Wiiliam O'Connell     Nevada Desert Experience, Meridianville, AL
New doors will open after you do the right thing. Divest nuclear now.

Lauren Stuparitz     Pittsburgh, PA
It is time do better, PNC.

Marcus Pegasus     AchorusAmorphous, Salt Lake City, UT
We can all do a better job, casting our body ballots where we are needed, refusing to conduct immoral acts of business, etc.

Julie Ann Sullivan     Pittsburgh, PA
Very soon I will close my PNC bank account because I can no longer support their involvement with nuclear proliferation. Humanity over profit please.

Lily Hughes     Guilford, VT

James J. Hughes     Playa Del Ray, CA
Stop supporting weapons of Death.

K. O'Neill     Cleveland, OH

J. J.      Guilford, VT

Connie Kline     Cleveland, OH

Laura Leigh Hughes     Los Angeles, Ca

Thea Paneth     United for Peace and Justice, Arlington, MA
Money for people's needs and communities, not for bombs!

Beth Brockman     Concerned citizen, Durham, NC

Harold A. Penner     1040 for Peace, Akron, PA
Straight ahead!

Joel Woller     Battle of Homestead Foundation, Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh, PA
PNC represents Pittsburgh. Make us proud!

James R. Heinrich     Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh, PA
I hope that my bank, PNC, will behave ethically and divest its investments related to the manufacture of nuclear weapons. I want to add that PNC has always treated me fairly, and I hope that PNC will do the right thing.

James Sniegocki     Proffesor of Christian Ethics, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
As Pope Francis has clearly stated, both the use and the very possession of nuclear weapons are immoral. Financing their creation is immoral as well. Please change your lending practices so that you do not contribute further to this sin.
John David Kudrick     Level Green, PA
Let us be instruments of peace for our times and for future generations.
Maggie Kudrik     Level Green, PA
Janet Berna     Lay Spiritans, Pittsburgh, PA
Ethical investment is important to me. Peace is so important to me! We have a large account at PNC and would appreciate your not investing in nuclear weapons.
Judith Kelly     Pax Christi, Arlington, VA
Adele Vamos     Munhall, PA
Michael Mariani     Pittsburgh, PA
Greg Wum     Moonta Bay, South Australia, Australia
In a billion years the global temp would have increased by ten percent due to the sun growing hotter, but we have 4-6 billion years before the sun expands to end all life on this planet, but at the moment we have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the planet three times over. Already we have been saved from nuclear annilation by the bravery of individuals. Investing in maintaining the possibility is maddness.
Rev. John Hoffman     Retired Catholic priest, Fox Lake, IL
PNC can do better. PNC can make a difference.
Suzanne Polen     Pax Christi USA, Allison Park, PA
Nuclear weapons are suicidal and must stop being produced.
Maxine Heller     Pittsburgh, PA
Jean Burns     St. Mary Magdalene Parish, Wilkinsburg, PA
Ellen E. Barfield     Veterans for Peace, War Resisters League, WILPF, Baltimore, MD
To profit from killing people, to profit from instigating war, is grotesque. STOP IT!!! Nuclear weapons are illegal and immoral. So is funding them. DIVEST!
Robert Little, MD     Physicians for Social Responsibility-PA, Harrisburg, PA
"All nations share a linked destiny. Nuclear weapons are their shared enemy." Dr. Bernard Lown, Nobel Peace Prize lecture, 1987
Margee Kooistra     Peacemaking Committee at Market Square Presbyterian Church, Mechanicsburg, PA
I seriously considered dropping PNC as my bank until they withdrew their support of Mountain Top Removal.h
Thomas Kerby Neill     Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice, Lexington, KY
I am a veteran. You would not finance germ warfare, the danger posed by nuclear weapons are comparable and in a all out nuclear exchange, even more devastating. Do you really want to be part of this?
Susan M. Smith     Pittsburgh, PA
The Doomsday clock is 120 seconds from midnight (nuclear disaster), closer than it has ever been. We must take all actions to reverse the clock; that is, to eliminate nuclear weapons everywhere in the world. A wonderful first step in the USA is to stop making them and to eliminate all programs for ‘improving’ and ‘rebuilding’ them. PNC can help make this happen when they stop investing in, and divest from, all companies that support any part of the nuclear weapon making process. Because I strongly support the Stop Banking the Bomb Campaign, I have moved my bank accounts out of PNC. PNC please listen and help us save the world – which is certainly in your self-interest.
Heather Woodford     California
Charlie Meyers    One PA, Philadelphia, PA
I closed my PNC account before yinz guys divested from Mountain Top Removal March 2, 2015.
Gregory Thomas     Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Anna Yowler     Strasburg, PA

Sr. Barbara Finch     Pittsburgh Area Pax Christi, Pittsburgh, PA
Please invest in only programs that promote life and not death.

Jack Payden-Travers     Winston-Salem, NC
Nuclear weapons and power are nails in our own coffins.

Rick Polhamus     Ludlow Falls, OH

Helen Evelev     Granny Peace Brigade Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

John Reuwer     Physicians for Social Responsibility, South Burlington, VT
Nuclear warheads are weapons of mass suicide. The only reason to build them is to make money. Please help us preserve the future by joining us in stopping the flow of money.

Joyce Hall     Pax Christi Dallas, TX, Dallas, TX
Investing in nuclear weapons is basically wrong and immoral, now illegal by international law.

C. Antonio Alvarez-Moreno     Washington, DC
Nuclear weapons will finish us off. It will also destroy all the birds and animals, the flowers, the beauty of our wonderful planet. We have to stand against this.

Len Bjorkman     Owego, NY

Bill Grimes     AUSCP, Owingsville, KY
If you want justice, work for peace.

Anna Baker     Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, Marshfield, MA
There's no reason why a bank of PNC's stature should be encouraging the use of nuclear weapons. In fact, lending your support to weapons of mass destruction only serves to paint a dark picture of your values as a company. We certainly hope you will make the right move and reconsider your investment strategy in order to divest from nuclear weapons.

Sean Tenney     Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, Portland, OR
Divesting from nuclear weapons profiteering is a critically important step for any corporation or financial institution that cares about protecting their future profits. With the likelihood of nuclear war rising year by year, only the complete abolition of these morally indefensible weapons of indiscriminate mass murder will ensure a healthy, safe future for your customers, shareholders, and employees. Your divestment from the nuclear weapons industry would be a positive and significant step in this direction.

Ira Helfand, MD     Physicians for Social Responsibility, Leeds, MA

Austin Wertheimer     Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, Brookline, MA
Funding implements of nuclear war is funding our extinction.

Andee Krasner      Boston, MA

Sheri Deal-Tyne     Iowa City, IA

Eve Shapiro     Physicians for Social Responsibility, Tucson, AZ

Lewis Patrie     Physicians for Social Responsibility, Asheville, NC

Fr. Robert J. Ahlin     Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Rev. Chuck Baptiste     West Sunbury, PA

Fr. Joseph Luisi     Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Emily Galpern     Berkeley, CA
I grew up in Pittsburgh and my family still lives there. We were PNC bankers and believe you can do the right thing to be part of global action to end the development of nuclear weapons.

Boryana Tacconi     Merrimack Valley People for Peace, Andover, MA

Christine Silvestri     The Dorothy Day House of Hospitality, Youngstown, OH
Invest in the future, don't invest to kill.

Terence P. Welk     Roman Catholic Priest, Philadelphia, PA
Good morals (investing in truly bringing good things to life & not evil ones) is also smart business & will win over many new investors for you.

Georgine Scarpino, RSM     Sisters of Mercy, Pittsburgh, PA

Fr. Jim Garvey     Pittsburgh, PA

Fr. Mark Glasgow     Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Jim Crosby     Nonviolent Austin, Manor, TX
The time has come! Let's get the threat, and financial drain, of nuclear arms off the human table! Then we can get on with building prosperity for all.

Linda Bessom     Sister, Somerville, MA

D. Roche, C. Pratt and J. Yachtis     Religious of the Sacred Heart, Washington, D.C.
We all live in a community named after Anne Montgomery, who spent most of her life trying to bring attention to the danger of Nuclear Weapons. It saddens us that the bank where we receive such excellent service is invested in the production of such deadly weapons.

John MacFadyen     Pax Christi USA, Boynton Beach, FL

Claudia Detwiler     Pittsburgh, PA
My husband and I closed our accounts at PNC because of this.

James McCabe     Roman Catholic Priest, Philadelphia, PA
For your own peace of mind and for Peace in the world, there must be better ways to make a profit.
Thomas P. Dwyer, OSA     Augustinian Order, St. Thomas Monastery, Villanova, PA
i know you must make a bundle loaning to groups who make nukes. Is it worth it if there is an accidental war?

Neil Himber     Veterans for Peace, Youngsville, PA
We must eliminate nuclear weapons. The possession of nuclear weapons is a form of idolatry.
Jean Athey     Maryland Peace Action, Baltimore, MD
Etta Albright     Citizen, Cresson, PA
Human and environmental health is sacred, do no harm. Citizenship is public ministry therefore I am compelled to approach all who I can in the quest for Stewardship and Sustainability for Goodness Sake through the belief of Respect Responsibility Relationship (as) a moral code for living and dying. Copies of these concepts are available free for the asking. PNC can be a powerful player in our efforts for a sustainable planet. An initative is headed by the World Economic Forum and its founder Klaus Schwab. Please join us!
Colleen Donovan     St. Thomas More University Parish, Indiana, PA
I would rather know that the bank where I do business focused solely on building the future rather than destroying it. So, while you help me finance my home, PNC is also in the business of violently destroying homes. We could eliminate this sort of violence if we stopped investing in it.
Giac LaGraff     Boston, MA
Rev. Hugh J. Shields     Catholic Church, Philadelphia, PA
Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow, PhD     The Shalom Center, Philadelphia, PA
Long ago the Prophet Isaiah envisioned a world where nations would "learn war no more" and "beat their swords into plowshares." But the institutional arrangements to make that happen did not yet exist. Now they do, and action by our leading banks is among them. Nuclear "weapons" are each an instrument of mass murder. PNC should withdraw its support from those who make them.
Hannah Rosche     psl, Pittsburgh, PA

Ed Grystar     Salutation, Oakmont, PA

Peter W. Deutsch     Aliquippa, PA
Don't leave out the various delivery systems and other resources that are needed in support of nuclear weapons. They count too.

Diana Jones     Pittsburgh, PA
if PNC does not take action to divest of this practice, i will move my checking account to another bank.

Patti Dunmire     Pittsburgh, PA

Emily M. Rosche     North Huntingdon, PA
Insane that I have to ask my bank to please stop financing nuclear weapons. There are plenty of banks to choose from these days. I will take my account elsewhere if you do not divest.

Nancy Leff     Pittsburgh, PA

Mark Fichman     Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Kathleen Gerace     Nonviolent Communication, Pittsburgh, PA

Al McGillivray     Eugene, OR
Reinvest in a healthy and safe community!

Charles D. Morrison, Jr.     Human, New Castle, PA
Humanity above nation.....and certainly above money.

Christine Haas     Pittsburgh, PA

Deacon Daniel Nizan     Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Rev. Linda Theophilus     Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Pittsburgh, PA
Blessed are the peacemakers.

Gloria Davis     East Liberty Lutheran Church, Pittsburgh, PA

Samuel Bojarski     New York, NY

Linda Morrison     League of Women Voters of Lawrence County, New Castle, PA

Anthony Donovan     Veterans for Peace, War Resisters League, Pax Christi, Catholic Worker, Kings Bay Plowshares 7, New York, NY
Amalgamated Bank here in NYC put out a public statement in support of the TPNW (Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons) in Sept. 2017, and since. Will again for the historic January 22nd. They disallow any transactions and investments, etc with any company involved with armaments, from guns to nuclear weapons. you can too.

Christopher D. Stanley     St. Bonaventure University, Allegany, NY

Helen Ortmann     Pittsburgh Area Pax Christi, Pittsburgh, PA
Investing in nuclear weapons, which must never be used, is immoral. It is immoral to spend so much money on nuclear weapons under any circumstances, but even more egregious when there is so much need for life supporting services by so many in this country and in the world. It is immoral to invest in and build weapons of mass destruction.

Art Laffin     Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House, Washington, DC
https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/nuclear-weapons-are-illegal-50-nations-ratify-historic-un-treaty

Raymond J. Spatti     Payson, AZ
Because the world is more dangerous today, I STRONGLY URGE YOU TO DIVEST FROM INVESTING IN PRODUCTS THAT IN ANY WAY RELATE TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

Penn Hackney     retired lawyer, Pittsburgh, PA
These days there is no excuse - moral or financial - to stay invested in nuclear weapons and fossil fuel energy entreprises.

Fr. Phillip Pribonic     Retired Catholic clergy, Bethel, PA
With all the suffering in the world, this money could be invested in humanitarian work.

Jean-Michel Gelmetti     Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
This is a very just cause, a campaign worth signing for. Banks should have a policy of ethical involvement.

Francois Marie Pellissier     Glenmary Home Missioners, Fitzgerald, GA

Darnellys Sacriste     The Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Buford, GA

Fr. Gregory Barras     Chair of Association of US Catholic Priests, Biloxi, MS
We have more than enough nuclear weapons and power to destroy the world. We, educated people, have a moral responsibility to protect creation, freely given, free to preserve and pass it on for our children and grandchildren.

Xavier Molina     Republican Party, Phoenix, AZ
Building nukes is made work for those with no imagination. More corporate welfare.

Thomas Fenlon     New York, NY

William Quigley     Law Professor, Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
The weapons we have now will end all human life on earth if used. Please take a leadership role. Your children and grandchildren will thank you.

John Bach     Quaker Chaplain at Harvard, Arlington, MA
I'm honored to be able to take part in this worthy endeavor.

William Hartman     Catholic Peace Fellowship Philadelphia, Vineland, NJ
Nuclear Weapons if ever used will be the death of the Earth. Nuclear Weapons by their existence foster poverty and waste resources while they create damage to our environment that will damage all life for 1000 lifetimes.

Worthington K. Bromley     PNC Bank client, Saint Louis, MO
This is a very important issue for me. As a U.S. citizen I have petitioned my government to sign the Non-proliferation Treaty and negotiate with Russia and China to sign the New Start. My savings and checking accounts in PNC Bank have more than $25,000 in them. I am willing to close these accounts and explain to all my friends why I am doing it. The companies in which I invest should be responsible to the health of humankind.

Michael Cahoon     BBVA account holder, Modesto, CA
Do not want you to invest in companies that make atomic weapons?

Edwin Everhart     Pittsburgh, PA

Fr. John McNamee     Pastor Emeritus, St. Malachy Parish, Philadelphia, PA

Eugene Doyle     Roman Catholic, Hamilton Beach, NY

Dr. Sarah L. MacMillen     Duquesne University, Sociology Department: Peace Justice and Conflict Resolution Program, Pittsburgh, PA

Shane L. McLaughlin     Pittsburgh, PA
Stop investing in nuclear weapons. It is morally wrong. I will be changing banks in the new year away from PNC because of this. And I will not be alone. Divest or continue to lose customers.
Bro. Richard Therrien     Capuchin Franciscan, Beacon
There is a need for moral consistency in regards to pro - life issues. It is only then that we are truly a moral people. Eliminating nuclear weapons is an important pro-life issue. Peace and all good things!
Fr. Thomas Lumpkin     Archdiocese of Detroit - Catholic Church, Detroit, MI
Fr. Henry Smolinski     St. John's Polish National Catholic Church, Windsor, CT
Fr. David La Plante     Catholic Church, Hartford, WI
Rev. Edward Schleter     People For Peace and Justice, Fremont, OH
Nuclear Weapons do not add to our security, but make us all insecure.

Josie Setzler     People For Peace and Justice Sandusky County, Fremont, OH
I thank the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 for keeping my attention focused on this treaty. Nuclear weapons threaten our earth by their very existence. Divest now.

Bridget Brennan     The Cana Institute, St. Louis, MO

Frank Manning     Catholic Community, Edmond, OK

Msgr. Charlie Cicerale     Retired pastor, St. James Parish, Woodbridge, NJ, Willingboro, NJ
Consider investing in renewable energy wind or solar rather than destructive energy of nuclear weapons. Seek peace and pursue it.


Robert Dueweke, OSA     Augustinians International, Metamora, MI

William Auth     Association of US Catholic Priests, Cement City, MI
Do you really want to encourage possible nuclear war.?...

Rev. John Tarantino     Randolph, NJ
For my family, I have 3 PNC accounts.

John Hemington     Izaak Walton League of Allegheny County, McMurray, PA
Nuclear weapons are evil - period end of argument.

Thomas Green     Pittsburgh, PA

Barbara Warwick     Pittsburgh, PA
Divest from nuclear weapons now!

Teresa Wright     Pittsburgh, PA

Margaretta Nussbaumer     Sisters of Divine Providence, Washington, PA

Thomas Shea     Congregation of Holy Cross, Cocoa Beach, FL

Fr. Michael K. Holleran     New York, NY

Fr. Richard Prendergast     St. Gertrude Parish, Chicago, IL

Donna W. Brett     Pittsburgh, PA

Rick Treuting     Gulf Coast Maryknoll Affiliates, Northwego, LA
Extending the strength of the US military industrial complex has gone on long enough. No more nuclear weapons! Stop funding these horrible tools of violence.

Les Schmidt     Glenmary, Marnardville, TN
This is crucial.

Mary Priniski     Catholic Committee of the South, Stone Mountain, GA

Carol M. Saalbach     Claysville, PA
I do not believe that violence is a problem solving technique. I believe that if we were to meet the needs of all people, rather than their wants (as our current economic system encourages), we would have a much more peaceful and community centered global society.

Priscilla Wahrhaftig     Wilmington, OH

Timmon Wallis     NuclearBan.US, Northampton, MA
As of January 22, 2021, the development and production of nuclear weapons is illegal in more than 50 countries who are party to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This will have a direct impact on the companies involved in the development and production of nuclear weapons who also have offices, branches, suppliers, projects, contracts and investors in those other countries. As more and more countries join this treaty, these companies face the reputational risk of being involved in activities that are abhorrent to much of the world. They will also increasingly face the legislative risk of those activities potentially putting them in legal difficulty in those countries. And sooner or later, these companies face the prospect of stranded assets as promised and expected contracts with the US government itself start to dry up as result of global pressures to eliminate these weapons before they eliminate us. Nothing could be more financially prudent and socially responsible for PNC than to divest from these companies while it still can, and to help lead the way to a nuclear weapon-free world.

Carol M. Inkrott     Bascom, OH

Linda Haas     Tiffin Franciscan Associate, Galena, OH
Nuclear Weapons must be abolished for the safety of all on Earth.
Sr. Mary Kuhlman     Sisters of St. Francis, Tiffin, OH
Help build peace. I don't believe bombs are the way.
Linda Scheckelhoff    Sisters of St. Francis, Tiffin, OH
Everyone loses with the mere existence of nuclear weapons.

Sr. Rebecca Aelker     Sister of St. Francis, Bryan, OH
George R. Marsh     Associate, Sisters of St. Francis, Tiffin, OH
Nuclear energy is fine for most purposes, but I oppose firmly its use as a weapon of mass destruction. Please be humane in your investments.
I have read at least one of PNC Bank's annual reports, and I see that you are committed to the general welfare of the cities and states in which you operate. Please widen your scope and see that the entire world depends on your being a good neighbor. Whatever can contribute to pollution anywhere adds to the global climate crisis. Please separate your loan power from industries that contribute to pollution, and thus to the sickness of people, the diminishment of plant and animal life and the fouling of waters.
Joanne Lammers     Tiffin, OH
Please respect life and stop support of nuclear weapons.

Theresa Kehres     Ravenna, KY
Nuclear weapons certainly are not pro-life. How can anyone support them?

Mary Lindenberger     Sisters of St. Francis, Canton, OH

Irene Magers     Sisters of St. Francis, Tiffin, OH

Veronica Nowakowski     Sisters of St. Francis, Tiffin, OH

Paul Doherty     Association of US Catholic Priests, Arundel, ME
I see this as a social justice issue that goes beyond the borders of Pittsburgh, and I hope there will be serious reflection on the part of PNC Bank. Thank you.

Mary Ann Kaper     Sunday's Bread Inclusive Catholic Community, Wexford, PA

Gerry Lococo     Sunday's Bread, Pittsburgh, PA

Jim Murphy     Sts. Anthony and Philip Parish, Highland, WI
The world understands that chemical and biological weapons are evil and illegal. It is far past time to recognize nuclear weapons as an evil against humanity.

Fr. Martin Peter     Catholic Church, Columbus, IN

Linda J. Raineri     AUSCP, Wilmington, DE
I have a PNC credit card and would like to see them divest themselves of any investments related to nuclear weapons.

Robert E. Ray     Roman Catholic Church, Louisville, KY

Lynn Rettinger     Sisters of Charity, Pittsburgh, PA

Nancy Kenny     Association of Pittsburgh Priests, Pittsburgh, PA
Diplomacy and life-giving industries are better ways to stop conflcits.

Ronni Weiss     Pittsburgh, PA

Mary McMahon     Philadelphia, PA

Jim Clune     Broome County Peace Action, Binghamton, NY
Nuclear weapons and their delivery systems have always been an insane way for humans to deal with each other. Nobody should be paying for or investing in them. As a peace activist for over fifty years, I have enough faith to say that we can live more human lives without them than with them.

Mary Danhauer     NonViolent Owensboro, Owensboro, KY
I find no security in knowing that nuclear arms are being held and produced by this country. The threat of complete annihilation is no comfort to me. I treasure this planet that I live on, my family and friends as well as nature. It's time to be rid of these weapons, because we are just a hair-trigger away from being completely destroyed by a mistake or a pre-emptive strike. That is no way to live in peace.

Carol Gonzalez     Pittsburgh, PA
In a world with intersecting crises to address, let's invest in a LIFE-giving future for our grandchildren! No time to waste.

Dee Kochirka     Izaak Walton League of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA
If PNC continues to finance nuclear weapons I will remove my account.

Daniel Scheid     Christian Life Community, Pittsburgh, PA
I am signing this as a Catholic committed to the Catholic tradition of peacemaking.

Walt Kochirka     Izaak Walton League of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA
Invest in improving Life; not in weapons for suffering and death.

Diane Perlman      Transcend US & Abolition 2000, Washington, DC

Diane Werley     Christian Life Community in USA, PA
I think it is important that Nuclear Weapons be abolished.

Evelyn Ophir     Brookline, MA

Fr. Tom Reynebeau     AUSCP, Green Bay, WI
Let's build peace through non-violence together.

Peter Chepaitis, OFM     Order of Friars Minor, Middleburgh, NY

Karen Miller     Kingston, NY

Fr. Bruce Wilkinson     Archdiocese of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA

Fr. Dale Korogi     Church of the Ascension, Minneapolis, MN
Lower the temperature in country and world. No more nuclear weapons.

Rev. George Hundt     Madison, NJ

Joy S. Johnson     Huntsville, AL

Susan Oehler     Asheville, NC
Time to stop financing nuclear weapons and weapons production systems.

Erich Winkler     New York, NY

Richard Landry     LaSalette Missionaries, Attleboro, MA

Laurie Timmermann     Asheville, NC
For the sake of humanity, the only guarantee against hair trigger nuclear annihilation of billions of people is for the US and all nuclear countries to abide by the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and for PNC Bank to end all financing of the financing of nuclear weapons, which are now illegal.

Jean Stevens     Taos Environmental Film Festival, Ranchos de Taos, NM
Ban nukes before they destroy civilization.

Clair Tomlinson     The Goddess of Democracy Society, Tempe, AZ
Ban nuclear now before nuclear bans us forever for nuclear ignorance shows no mercy and takes no prisoners! Are we sane enough to beat the nuclear spears into nuclear shears or is it already too late? Tic...Toc...Tic...T.........

Thomas McGann, CMF     Claretian Missionaries, Chicago, IL

Rev. Douglas Brougher     Archdiocese of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Thank you for considering my request on this important issue.

Heulwen Baworowska     Winvisible, London, United Kingdom

Mary-Clare Carder     Victoria, BC, Canada
Please do your part to help stop this madness and evil.

Nick Viggiano     Aston, PA

Deacon Amy Blumenshine     Coming Home Collaborative, Minneapolis, MN
It is immoral to ask military service members to use nuclear weapons. It is immoral to invest in them. And it is also fiscally irresponsible to invest other people's money in WMD as the world moves to divest these now prohibited and obsolete albatrosses. Given the cyber-insecurity, no one can be sure that the weapons guidance systems have not been hacked.

Melanie Bennett     Future WAVE, El Cajon, CA
You have the power to help save the world! Please choose a bright future for us all -- by stopping the bomb!

Fr. Paul Wysocki     Cleveland Diocese, Williamsfield, OH

Robert T. Begin     Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, Lakewood, OH
There are plenty of good investment opportunities and I would hope my bank would invest responsibly.

Fr. Clyde K. Foster     Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Priests Pension Fund is held and administered by PNC. A number of parishes do their banking with PNC.

Nicholas Rutkowski     Village at Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX
What the world needs now is love.
We don't need another weapon.
There are bullets and bombs to kill us all.
There are guns and bombers to destroy the earth.
Invest in love.


Fr. James L. Caddy     Diocese of Cleveland, Kirtland, OH

Roger Cuthbertson     Shorewood, MN

Richard G. Prindle     American Martyrs Church, Manhattan Beach, CA
I may not bank with you but I do share a common home with you and I would like all of us to be able to live without the fear of nuclear annihilation.

Fr. Charlie Diedrick     St. Mary Roman Catholic Church, Elyria, OH
The Diocese of Cleveland encouraged its churches including ours to move their assets into a socially responsible account with PNC. It would seem fitting that the bank would divest itself of all investments in the nuclear arms production.

Melissa Fry     WILPF, Fresno Beach, Fresno, CA
I wish all banks in my state and elsewhere would do the same and am working toward those efforts in my city and state.

Kevin Ashe     Brick, NJ

Dan Divis     Lorain, OH

Rev. Bernard (Bob) Bonnot     AUSCP, Struthers, OH

Louis Arcenaeaux, c.m.     Congregation of the Mission, Western Province, USA, New Orleans, LA

Rev. Donald Cozzens     Shaker Heights, OH

John Warner     Louisville, OH

Travis Frampton      Rochester Hills, MI

Ed Hoover     Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition, Perrysburg, OH
I'm in support of the petition to stop investing in the "Bomb". Nuclear weapons are not promoting life, but death.


Peter Shell     Pittsburgh, PA

Rev. Timothy M. Kummerer     Catholic Diocese of Toledo, New Riegel, OH

Richard Gonser     Saint Jude Church, Elyria, OH

Robert Reinhart     AUSCP, Toledo, OH
Why should you not bank the bombs ? It is the right thing to do. Our planet depends on it.

Richard E. Notter     Catholic Diocese of Toledo, Toledo, OH
I do not agree with financing nuclear bombs.

Edward Littelmann     Catholic Priests, Toledo, OH
Broad challenge to show leadership in!

Fr. Lawrence E. Mick     Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Dayton, OH

Fr. Thomas Weston, SJ     Jesuits West, USA, Oakland, CA

Dr. Marcus Mescher     Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH

John Thomas Lane, SSS     Roman Catholic Priest & Pastor, Saint Paschal Baylon, Highland Heights, OH
Please help us maintain peace in our world.

Frank Eckart     Retired Priest, AUSCP member, Toledo, OH

Fr. John Rose     Diocese of Syracuse, East Syracuse, NY
I would appreciate your leadership in divesting from support of nuclear weapons.

Fr. Charles Denny    Roman Catholic Diocese of Toledo, Perrysburg, OH

Tina Darragh     Greenbelt, MD
Please put a hold on nuclear weapons.

Sr. Althea Anne Spencer     Sisters of St. Francis of the Providence of God, Pittsburgh, PA

Malini Dominey     Santa Fe, NM

Ermyn King     former resident of Pittsburgh and State College, PA, Gaithersburg, MD
As an arts in health professional who has worked at the bedside of wounded and injured military service members from recent conflicts at the largest military medical center in the USA and world, I have seen the enduring impacts of weapons of war on human life up close. Though my family has had PNC Bank accounts in the past, as long as PNC supports and invests in entities involved in the manufacture of nuclear weapons, banking with PNC will never again be morally possible for me...and I will share this stance within my networks of like-minded others in and connected to multiple locations with PNC Banks.

April Lambert     Philadelphia, PA

Bishop John Stowe     Catholic Diocese of Lexington, Lexington, KY
The Catholic Diocese of Lexington does banking and investment with PNC and is concerned about the bank's involvement in allowing the continued production of nuclear weapons and threatening the safety and security of the world while using valuable funds that could better prevent war by providing food and basic necessities to the inhabitants of countries who build and maintain nuclear weapons.

Rev. Thomas McCarthy     Association of US Catholic Priests, Hubbard, OH
Please join the cause of using nuclear power only for peaceful ways of advancing our civilization.

Joseph Murray     Green Party, Reading, PA
Invest in green industries not radioctive dinosaurs.

Kathy Grabowski     Sunday's Bread, Pittsburgh, PA

Amy Reich     Green Party Voter, Proctorville, OH

Joseph A. Dantona     Salem, OH

Joseph Torma     Alliance Catholic Worker, Alliance, OH

Ericka Williams Rodriguez     Carbon County Catholic Worker, Nesquehoning, PA

Jennifer Jin     Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Jimmy Zeng     Pittsburgh, PA

Ben Jimenez, SJ     Society of Jesus, Cleveland, OH

Fr. Gregory Swiderski     Pittsburgh, PA
Recently the Vatican issued a statement which wrote that God cannot bless sin. The world over refugees face horrific living, if their experience can be called living, while the many governments waste financial resources on nuclear weapons which would annihilate this planet and all of our creatures...certainly a sin.

Joseph V. Kurutz     Roman Catholic Priest, Bethel Park, PA
As a responsible business who need people to survive and do commerce, you should be willing to support the continuation of decent humanity. The human race needs responsible large firms to wake people up to the danger of nuclear weapons.

Vinny Mckiernan     St. Thomas More Newman Center, Columbus, OH

Fr. Charles F. Klinger     AUSCP, Columbus, OH
This will help you sleep better at night.

Nick Miele     Pax Christi USA, Bellingham, WA

Nora Nash     Director of CSR, Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, Aston, PA
I am saddened by the fact that PNC has evaded its responsibility to society and the environment by financing nuclear weapons. At this time of global pandemic, mass migration, climate change and racial inequities, PNC could find some better ways to contribute to the common good.

Nicolette Kier     Pittsburgh, PA
I'm honest to God shocked by a quality bank's involvement in what can only be called preemptive destruction. I recommended PNC to everyone I know, and now I regret it.
PNC: You're better than this.
So do better than this.

Jane Hutton     Association of Pittsburgh Priests, Pittsburgh, PA
Having an account from 1965....I love PNC bank. My husband and I have stock in PNC. I am so shocked that PNC is actually investing in nuclear weapon advancement. We in the USA have enough nuclear weapons to blow up the world ....like, 100 times over. Only takes a mistake for someone here or abroad to start the end of the world. Please, please change this investment in anti-life stockpiles. We cannot afford to have any more of these terrible weapons. If anything we should decrease or eliminate the weapons here and in the other countries by treaty to lower the risk of annihilation. These weapons are immoral and dangerous. Our future lives depend on human survival.

Msgr. Charles L. Brown III     Retired priest, Diocese of Wilmington, New Castle, DE
Marilyn Antonik     AUSCP, Wilmette, IL
I’m concerned that I have an account at a Bank that supports nuclear weapons that are devastating to people and to all of creation. Please eliminate your investments in nuclear holdings now! If I don’t see progress in this, I’ll have to close my account. Thank you!
Friar Justin Belitz, OFM     The Franciscan Hermitage, Indianapolis, IN
We are sending this request to members of our constituency. God bless your time, your, dedication, your expertise, We have you and your organization in our Prayer Box. Love and spiritual support! Justin & the Hermitage Family
James Gutting     Father, Bradford, PA
Deacon Matthew Ochalek     Erie, PA
Always immoral and now illegal, nuclear weapons must be rejected. PNC, stop banking the bomb!
Carol Gilbert, OP     ICAN, Washington, DC
Vicki Elson     NuclearBan.US, Northampton, MA
NOBODY should profit from weapons of mass extinction!
Rev. Robert Reidy     Catholic Church Diocese of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
Our Diocese does much business with the PNC Bank, e.g. pension fund and investments.
Bruce Simmeth     Retired, West Seneca, NY
Very important to move away from the continuing production of nuclear bombs towards the increased funding of anti-poverty programs, such as the expansion of SNAP, the increased funding for our Child Nutrition Programs and making the expansion of the Child Tax Credit permanent.
Myra Mann     Pittsburgh, PA
Evelyn Christie     St. Mary Magdalene Parish, Pittsburgh, PA
Janet Pitta     Pittsburgh, PA
Teress Wilson     Claremont, CA
Sherrone Battle     Washington, DC
Philip Reiss     member Veterans For Peace, Bethlehem, PA
Stop facilitating production of war materials!
Joe Guthrie     Pittsburgh, PA
John Modell     Pittsburgh, PA
Though not a shareholder or the holder of a PNC Bank account, PNC is now the closest bank to me, and I would contemplate shifting my account to there from the more distant local bank. But not while you support, by your investment strategy, nuclear war capability!
Kit Baril     Party for Socialism & Liberation, Pittsburgh, PA
Joan Underwood    Topeka, KS
Moni McIntyre     Pittsburgh, PA
For too long we have been building nuclear weapons in order to destroy or threaten to destroy one another. Can we use this money to build communities by reducing college tuition costs and helping those with minimum wage jobs?
Carolyn Winschel     Sisters of Divine Providence, Allison Park, PA
Looking forward to it!
Roberta Zolkoski     Pittsburgh, PA
What an opportunity to be a better PNC Bank on a better planet!
Mary E. Shaw     Carbondale, PA
Carolyn Taylor     First Presbyterian Church of Greensburg, PA, Greensburg, PA
I'm writing to express solidarity with my brothers and sisters of Pax Christi, Greensburg, PA, a local chapter of PaxChristi USA, itself a part of an international organization of the same name. My checking account is with PNC, and I'm horrified to know that you're attempting to profit by investing in such barbaric technology as the production of nuclear weaponry. Beyond that, I'd hate to learn that you'd even consider merely investing in the nuclear generation of electricity. Those familiar with Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power know that the people who once bought electricity from that company now pay an exceedingly-large portion of their current electric bills just to fund the storage of forever-deadly spent nuclear fuel rods, etc on the former site of that now-closed plant. I encourage PNC to get out of the recently -- outlawed production of nuclear weapons and go even further by suggesting you also avoid the funding of nuclear power generation if you don't already do so.
Stephen Sheridan     Pittsburgh, PA
Ingrid Brown     Wichita, KS
Miriam Elliott    Pax Christi USA, Gainesville, FL
Now that I know that PNC finances nuclear weapons I will not consider banking with PNC.
Theron Gilliland, Jr.     Green Party of Allegheny County member, Pittsburgh, PA
Cathy Rowan     Bronx, NY
Alfred Meyer     Physicians for Social Responsibility, New York, NY
Please use the power of your bank to foster life and well being rather than nuclear destruction of our planet earth.
Barbara Smith     Crossville, TN
Please stop financing the ongoing manufacture and stockpiling of nuclear weapons.
Christine Graziano     Pittsburgh, PA
If you do not respond to this petition and make a change as requested here, we will be taking our money out of your Bank.
Lois Campbell     Pittsburgh, PA
Carol Serafin     Ligonier, PA
Cecilia Sheffield     Richfield, MN
Gillian F.     Sedona, AZ
Mary Manning     Boardman, OH
Randall Malick     Fairlawn, OH
Corporate America needs to be responsible to its citizens and those of the rest of the world.
Robin Krofcheck     St. James Parish, Amity, PA
Do the right thing
Sr. Marian Sgriccia     School Sisters of St. Francis, Pittsburgh, PA
Carolyn Weithorn     Sisters of St. Joseph, Conway, PA
Patricia Marida     Ohio Nuclear Free Network, Columbus, OH
I belong to a credit union because they do not invest in nuclear power.
Barbara Allaire     Sacred Heart/Our Lady Help of Chrisitians, Newton, MA
In the name of God and the whole human family, stop funding the development of nuclear weapons!
Elbert Kuhns     Clarksville, PA
Rebecca Kuhns     St. Matthias Parish, Clarksville, PA
Elizabeth Kuhns     Clarksville, PA
Fr. George Mackey     Ambridge, PA
Joseph Blatney     Greensburg, PA
This is the reason i refuse to get a pnc account.
Jane Mccafferty     Pittsburgh, PA
William Saunders     East Pittsburgh, PA
Nuclear war is one of the biggest threats to all of our existence. As a high school social studies teacher it is always a topic that grabs students attention and jerks them into an awareness of world crises. PNC must think about their futures and all ours.
Mia DeCataldo     Oakland, PA
Reiss Veltri     Pittsburgh, PA
I will be pulling my account and credit cards if something isn’t done.
James McCarville     Association of Pittsburgh Priests, Pittsburgh, PA
Pat Ferrone     Pax Christi MA and St. Susanna Pax Christi, Needham, MA
I will try to determine which bank the Archdiocese of Boston uses for establishing pension funds for their priests.

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